What factors lay behind the rehabilitation of central city districts across the world? Set
against the contexts of international transformations in a post-industrial postmodern society …

This essay argues that Tom Slater's article makes several important points regarding what
he rightly suggests is the disappearance of a critical edge from much of the recent …

The author and contributors of this book seek to present alternatives to the mainstream
discussions of gentrification. It does not present a single coherent vision of the causes …

This paper is an empirical examination of the process of'super-gentrification'in the Brooklyn
Heights neighbourhood of New York City. This intensified regentrification is happening in a …

Gentrification, the conversion of socially marginal and working-class areas of the central city
to middle-class residential use, reflects a movement, that began in the 1960s, of private …

As its name suggests, the process of gentrification is intimately concerned with social class,
yet in economic, social and political terms, the class dimensions of gentrification are only …

Gentrification is now global. It is no longer confined to western cities. Processes of
neighbourhood change and colonisation represented by an increasing concentration of the …

The driving-force behind the identification and analysis of many urban problems can be
linked to what C. Wright Mills termed 'public issues'(1959). When Ruth Glass first observed …

Whereas authors have frequently alluded to an adversarial politics among the new middle
class of professional and managerial workers, surveys and electoral returns confirm a …

Gentrification is now firmly established as a major phenomenon of Western cities and is
established in both academic and popular discourse. It was first identified and labeled by …